“The Commission wishes to reiterate its commitment to the conduct of free, fair and credible election in the State. It also wishes to inform the general public that the Supplementary Election would be conducted on Saturday 23rd March, 2019,” Riskuwa stated.

He explained the cancellation of results in some units located within some local Government Areas was due to violence and over voting, which lead to cancellations of results in 210 Polling Units which constitutes 88 Registration Areas, adding that the affected Polling Units has a total number of 128,572 registered voters.

The Kano REC said the contenders with the highest votes are the candidates of the All Progressive Congress with 987,819 and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party with 1,014, 474 votes.